Hello, so yet another Western military mention in the Middle East, which are, I would say, well known for their success and general triumph.

This time, it is of course the US and the UK bombing Yemen that is after the dominant Houthi movement there

which rules much of Yemen after a particularly gruesome civil war there which has gone on for many

years and declared that in solidarity with the people of Gaza,

they would stage attacks on ships, major shipping routes, Britain and America have gone,

well, we will now retaliate with BOMI. That is just the general

gist of what's happened. It's a little bit more complicated than that, that

pre-seat, but we have the best possible expert to talk us through what the hell is going on, what the

hell is going to happen plausibly and what an alternative is because that

question is going to be asked what would you do then what would you do so we're

joined by the brilliant David Waring, who is a lecturer in international relations

at the University of Sussex. He wrote a brilliant book called Angler Arabia, which after this you should

all Google and then buy.

Hi David, how you doing?

Yeah, men, right?

So, you had the Arab Spring in 2011

and in many countries you had revolutions Yemen was no exception.

What happened? I mean it doesn't just start in 2011 because the Houthi movement predates that.

So who are the Houthis? What happened between 2011 and 2015 basically?

So the whoth is a paramilitary group who originated in the northern part of Yemen,

it's mountainous region in the northern part of Yemen, or mountainous region in the northern part of Yemen,

who have this kind of antipathy of the central government, who aren't too impressed with the Saudis as well

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